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Giant Magnetofossils: Mysterious Magnetic Fossils Offer Past Climate Clues – SciTechDaily

There are fossils, found in ancient marine sediments and made up of no more than a few magnetic nanoparticles, that can tell us a whole lot about the climate of…

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Electron microscope images of giant needles. Needles have a cylindrical shape and some taper toward one end of the crystal. Credit: Courtney Wagner, Ioan Lascu and Kenneth Livi
There are fossils, found in ancient marine sediments and made up of no more than a few magnetic nanoparticles, that can tell us a whole lot about the climate of the past, especially episodes of abrupt global warming. Now, researchers including doctoral student Courtney Wagner and associate professor Peter Lippert from the…

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